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Comment by 'Peaceapplause' on Barry Commoner put science to service of the peoplehttp://www.peoplesworld.org/barry-commoner-put-science-to-service-of-the-people/#PageComment_36772
Barry Commoner, along with Virginia Warner Brodine, both active in the center of the U. S., at St. Louis, MO and were model activist-scientists, as sister Anita Waters writes.
This excellent article suggests future activities of all types of activists and revolutionaries, as it recounts some of the best milestones of the past, to protect humans from the perils of wild and insane capitalism, as it ruins the ecology in the blind pursuit of profit.
Humans are part of the ecosystem. If we, especially as workers, including scientific workers, do not intelligently regulate this ecosystem, it will maybe, and mind you, rapidly, relegate us to extinction.
The strontium-90 tests indicated forcefully the wanton, irresponsible nature of capitalism, and both Commoner and Brodine demonstrated that this capitalism could only be counted on for irresponsible, wrecking behavior, failing in protecting people and nature.
It is more than coincidence that the institutions of the St. Louis Committee for Nuclear Information, the Scientists' Institute for Public Information, the E P A, and the Clean Air Act evolved in the same short time frame.
Upon the foundations of these, we must continue to make a safe, socialist economy, one which protects the biological and ecological integrity of humankind and nature the way Commoner and Brodine struggled for it, side by side with the great working class movements for social and economic justice, including the working poor, which is the great mass of workers.
That 1963 is both the year of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signing and the biggest Peace and Jobs demonstration, led by M L K is no mistake; to continue this applause for peace, capped by the death of W. E. B. Du Bois,(another 95 year old fallen champion), who was, with Lenin-champion of peace, with his prophetic words, "...peace will be my applause."Fri, 05 Oct 2012 12:13:04 -0400Peaceapplausehttp://www.peoplesworld.org/barry-commoner-put-science-to-service-of-the-people/#PageComment_36772